C. navaiae (Lane 1983)
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Culicoides navaiae
Lane 1983: 534. Saudi Arabia
(Lane 1983: 534. Description, female, figs)
(Boorman 1989: 191. Notes, male, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
A very distinctive species; the wings
almost unmarked but with faint pale areas just before and just after the
radial cells. The female antennae has the SD 3,11-14: AR 1.03-1.33.
The third segment of the palp is slightly swollen with a single large but
shallow sensory pit; a single ovoid spermatheca. The male genitalia are very
similar to others of the subgenus, the ninth sternite membrane bare. The
figure of the wing is from Lane (1989) and of the genitalia from Boorman
(1989).
